Tag Archives: AWS

A Research and Markets report predicts that the market for cloud storage products will reach a value of $65.41 billion in 2020 from $18.87 billion in 2015, at a compound annual growth rate of 28.22 percent. The company said Sept. 3 the growing adoption of cloud storage gateways and demand for big data …

CloudPassage‘s Halo platform will be available to federal government customers through Amazon Web Services‘ GovCloud for the U.S. region as the security company works to achieve FedRAMP-ready status. CloudPassage said Tuesday it is seeking to obtain a certification under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program to provide agile security functions to the Defense Department and …

Data center security firm vArmour and Amazon Web Services have formed a partnership to help enterprises secure and manage their data workloads on AWS’ private, public and hybrid cloud computing platforms. VArmour will offer network control, policy enforcement and visibility to clients with workloads that run on AWS cloud environments through its Distributed …

Blue Canopy Group has received a five-year, $39 million prime contract to build a high-performance computing infrastructure hosted on Amazon Web Services‘ cloud environment for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission‘s office of information technology. The HPCI will feature a big data analytics function in support of SEC’s efforts to detect high-frequency trading …

Amazon Web Services has become a member of the nonprofit IJIS Institute and will provide leadership, expertise and financial support for the institute’s national information sharing and safeguarding efforts. The IJIS Institute said Thursday its programs are aimed at the law enforcement, homeland security and public safety sectors. “We’re looking forward to taking …

Steven Spano serves as president of the Center for Internet Security, a New York-based nonprofit organization that works on public- and private-sector cybersecurity readiness and response. He previously worked at Amazon Web Services as general manager for defense and national security within the company’s worldwide public sector business. Before joining …

Red Hat has begun to offer the Enterprise Linux for SAP HANA platform on the Amazon Web Services marketplace in a move to help clients deploy big data workloads. Customers will have an additional option to process data analytics tasks with the listing of the open source service on AWS, Red …

The U.S. Justice Department is seeking information on small businesses that can perform a data center colocation of security server racks for the agency’s Amazon Web Services-built cloud platform. DOJ said in a FedBizOpps notice published Thursday it prefers a colocation facility that is located near a FedRAMP-certified AWS GovCloud …

Amazon Web Services and Community Energy will build and operate a new solar farm in Accomack County, Virginia, that will work to generate 170,000 megawatt hours of solar energy a year beginning October 2016. AWS said Wednesday the future 80-megawatt Amazon Solar Farm US East facility will power AWS Cloud data centers in the region …

Amazon Web Services will hold its sixth annual Government, Education and Nonprofits Symposium on June 25 and 26 to discuss existing applications of cloud services on public sector organizations. AWS said in the event webpage that participants will present cases on the topics of FedRAMP and trusted Internet connections, scientific discovery, DevOps, education and open data. …

Teresa Carlson, vice president of the worldwide public sector at Amazon Web Services, has observed that Silicon Valley-based technology companies have seen an opportunity to collaborate with federal agencies, she told the Washington Business Journal in an interview published Thursday. “Government is going out there,” Carlson told the Business Journal’s Jill …

Amazon‘s cloud computing business posted revenue of $1.57 billion for the first quarter of its 2015 fiscal year, up almost 50 percent from the prior year period, the Washington Post reported Thursday. Amrita Jayakumar writes Amazon Web Services‘ performance is partly attributed to its cloud information technology services contracts in …

Amazon Web Services has awarded Unisys a “Customer Obsession” status to recognize its work to deliver AWS cloud platforms and service offerings to government clients. Unisys said Wednesday it earned the distinction for its partnership with AWS to help public sector organizations adopt cloud computing technology. “We are honored by …

Lockheed Martin has launched a cloud-based version of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s interactive Map of the World application in a move to link Earth’s features and intelligence observations in real time. This map works to show manmade and natural changes to the surface of or beneath the planet and be searchable on the …

Unisys has been awarded five-year, $7 million contract to provide Amazon Web Services‘ cloud services for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau‘s consumer safety information initiative. The CFPB intends to scale its information technology resources via the AWS cloud in order to fulfill consumer demand for safety information, Unisys said Thursday. “We look forward to helping CFPB provide critical information to …